Native American Clothing

A
comprehensive illustrated guide to Native American
clothing and dress with pictures and videos. Native American
clothing varied from tribe to tribe and a person
would be recognised by the clothing they wore and
how their clothes were decorated. Discover facts and
information about Native American clothing and dress worn by
the men and women of Indian tribes such as the Apache, Cherokee,
Chinook, Comanche, Hopi and Sioux.

Native American Clothing
and Dress
A comprehensive
and illustrated guide to the Native American Clothing,
Attire, Apparel and dress of men and women from various American Indian
tribes and the
indigenous people of North America. All of our
articles about the clothing and clothes,
including ceremonial dress are accompanied by pictures, paintings
and many have videos - all bringing the life of
Native American Clothing to life and enabling a
better understanding of the clothes they wore.

Clothing for
different culture groups
The way of life and the clothes, clothing
and dress of the Native American
men and women was dictated by climate and
the animals, fish and birds that were available to them. The natural resources and materials
available to the different groups in each
area or region provided the
clothes, clothing and dress of the different tribes. The
weather and the changing seasons also
impacted the type of clothing worn. The
regional cultural groups are categorised as the
Northwest American Indians, the Northeast
Woodlands American Indians, the Southwest Indians, the
Southeast American Indians, the Arctic and
Sub-Arctic Indians and the American Indians of
California. The men and women of these groups
wore different clothing and dress according to the
traditions of their tribes and the climates in
which they lived.

Blackfoot
Skinwalker

Native
American Clothing and Traditional Dress
The following articles provide illustrated
articles about Native American clothing,
attire, apparel and dress of
the men and women and
the traditional or ceremonial dress and
regalia of the tribes and cultural regions.

Pictures
of Native
American Clothing and Jewelry
The Pictures of Native American women and
men in
this section provide an opportunity to study
the differences between the clothing, dress and
hair styles of the men and women of different
American Indian tribes. There are
pictures, paintings, images and photographs
of the clothes, clothing and ceremonial
dress of Native American Indian women and
men from all of
the main tribes.

Native
American Clothing - Iconic Clothing
The well known garments and items of
traditional clothing and ceremonial dress
included the breechcloths, buckskin shirts,
deerskin dresses, the fringes, animal robes
and furs, feather headdresses, roach
headdresses, shawls, headbands,
breastplates, belts and pouches of the
American Indians.

Native American Clothing History - Use of Animal
Products
The Native Americans were highly respectful
of nature and never wasted any animal
products. Hides, leather, fur, feathers,
skins, teeth, claws were all put to good use
in creating Indian clothing and ornaments,
especially by the tribes of the Great Plains.
The indigenous American animals used in creating Native American
clothing and dress included buffalo, bear, deer, elk,
moose, rabbit, fish (skins), weasel,
wildcats, otter, ermine and snakeskin.

Native American Clothing History - Use of
Plant
Products
Plants and trees provided some of the most
abundant natural resources to many tribes
especially in California and the Northwest
coast. In many locations the bark of trees,
was stripped, dried, and shredded to make
fibers. The fibers were used to weave soft,
comfortable shredded bark clothing.
Great Basin Tribes, such as the Paiute and
the Washoe, who inhabited the Eastern desert
areas used the shredded bark of the
sagebrush to make some of their clothing.
Northwest Pacific Coast Indian Tribes, such
as the Tlingit and the Chinook used woven
spruce root and bear grass to make hats and
raincoats. Arctic tribes, such as the Aleut,
weaved hats made from from dune wildrye
grass.

Native American Clothing History - Use of
Cloth
Many Native Americans in the Southwest had
grown cotton from very ancient times. Before
the arrival of the first Europeans,
Southwestern tribes such as the Hopi had
developed different methods of weaving and
wove the cotton into cloth, creating
different styles of cotton clothing.
Southeastern tribes such as the
Cherokee used mulberry bark to make soft
shirts. Mountain-sheep wool and
mountain-goat hair was woven by Northwest
Coast Tribes, such as the Haida and
Tsimshian, who developed the Chilkat weaving
technique that was applied to
creating blankets and clothes including tunics,
shirts, leggings and
robes. Trade Cloth was first introduced to
Native American Indians during the late 1700's.

Pictures
of Native
American Clothing and Jewelry
The Pictures of Native American women and
men in
this section provide an opportunity to study
the differences between the clothing,
hair styles and jewelry worn by the different Indian tribes. There are
pictures, paintings, images and photographs
of the clothing worn by men and women from all of
the main tribes.

Native American Clothing

Indian Clothing,
Attire and Apparel for kids

History of
Indian Clothing, clothes, jewelry and ceremonial
dress

Images and
Pictures of the clothing, attire and apparel of Native Indians

Interesting
Facts on clothes, clothing and jewelry for kids and schools

Traditional Indian Clothing, attire and apparel for kids with pictures and Videos

History of Native American Clothing
The history of Indian clothing made
a radical change when the European settlers
arrived. As Native American Indian tribes
were forced into closer contact with each
other they adopted similar styles of
clothing. The headdresses of different
tribes were the exception to these
adaptations. The introduction of the horse
led to many tribes changing their habitat
and life style to become nomadic hunters of
the Great Plains and the history of their
clothing changed again. The history and
changes to American Indian clothing changed when the Indians
adapted and merged some European styles of
clothing with their own.